How to Dig Yourself Into a Bigger Hole

            Procrastination, everyone is guilty of it every once and a while. Sometimes you just don’t want to start writing a three page opinion paper even though it would probably only take a maximum of two hours to write. It is definitely smarter to turn in something due Friday earlier if you can, but it also means taking time away from doing something you want to do so you can do something you don’t have to do yet. Simple procrastination like this happens to people all the time, and it is not particularly harmful in small doses. I find such plebian procrastination disheartening. If you are going to procrastinate you need to appreciate the method to the madness. Thus, I have enclosed seven sure fire tips to improve the quality of your procrastination. Following these instructions will undoubtedly leave you scrambling to finish something you should have done ages ago in a professional manner.

1. Be Confident

            Procrastination isn’t for the faint of heart. In order to effectively put off work till the last minute, you have to honestly believe that you can finish as close to the deadline as possible. The less confident the person the more likely they will break down and start working on their assigned task early. You've procrastinated before and it turned out fine, right? That means you can definitely handle doing it again.
 

2.Get Organized.

            Now I know it may seem counter intuitive to organize yourself in order to procrastinate more fully. You are not wrong, if you are planning to organize yourself effectively that is. In order to feed their inner confidence, it is sometimes beneficial for a procrastinator to fool themselves into thinking they are prepared. The key is to put the day which work is supposed to start as close to the due date as possible. Sure it looks like you now have a plan, but in reality this is probably the same amount of time you would have delegated to the task anyways.
 

3. Ignore everything else you have going on.

            This is a pretty self-explanatory but vital part of the procrastinator’s toolbox. When figuring out how much time it is likely to take to do one task, never think about the other things that may prevent you from starting work on schedule. Continue to believe in an ideal existence where nothing will ever distract you, cause what are the chances that more than one thing will be due by Monday, right?

4. Stay up late but don’t adjust your sleep schedule to compensate.

            No I don’t mean stay up late working, I mean just in general stay up later than you should. If you stay up later you will become tired earlier, then lose your motivation to work today, and instead decide to start again tomorrow when you will have more energy.
 

5. Be up for anything.



He was planning to write a blog but...........

 

            Whenever someone asks you if you have time to hang out or help them with something, you are obligated by the ancient tenants of the procrastination bible to fulfill this person’s wish, unless it directly conflicts with the absolute minimum time needed to complete your assigned task.

6. Do the absolute minimum prerequisites.

            This is another potential strategy to boost self-confidence, thus making it easier to procrastinate. Essentially this is like applying skim reading to any sort of real life situation. For example, while doing a biography gathering short trivial facts instead of focusing on your topics whole life. The fact that you have done something towards reaching your goal, regardless of its actual usefulness in the long run, will make it seem like you haven’t been procrastinating at all, making it easy to put off doing any real work.

7. Multi-Tasking.

            In my personal experience multi-tasking only makes things take longer, while making it seem like something productive is happening. I have heard that some people are capable of multitasking effectively, so instead of doing it an effective way you should do it the procrastinator’s way. Instead of actually doing more than one thing at once, try to switch your focus from one thing to another repeatedly. Essentially, it’s like having three YouTube tabs opens on your computer at the same time, each playing a different video. You want to watch all the videos at once, but actually watching them all at once would be chaos. Instead, you can flounder around constantly switching between videos in an indecisive manner. Is this totally inefficient? Yes it is completely inefficient, which makes it perfect for procrastinating.

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